Teachers & Mentors
Many inspiring teachers have helped me find my way as a writer of prose and poetry over the years:
Erin Belieu at the April 2011 Centrum Weekend Poetry Symposium, Port Townsend, Washington.
Kathleen Halme at the Mountain Writers Series in Portland, Oregon, Winter 2011.
Cindy Williams Gutierrez and her classes in Ekphrastic Poetry in Fall 2011 and her classes in Narrative, Persona, & Lyric Poetry in 2010-11 in Portland, Oregon.
Dana Levin at the July 2010 Centrum Port Townsend Writers' Conference, Port Townsend, Washington.
David Biespiel, Matthew Dickman, Kathleen Halme, Henry Hughes, and Paulann Petersen at the The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon.
Paulann Petersen and Kirsten Rian at a poetry weekend workshop at the Writers' Dojo in Portland, Oregon.
Abigail Thomas and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Karen Karbo at the Haystack Program in the Arts at Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Bob Haynes, Barbara Henning, John High, Marc Olmsted, and Allegra Wong in workshops through Writers on the Net.
Carolyn Altman and Peter Christopher in classes and workshops in Portland, Oregon.
Tom Spanbauer and the Dangerous Writers also in Portland.
Ron Hansen, Liz Rosenberg, and Jack Vernon in the creative writing graduate program at SUNY/Binghamton.
Marilynne Robinson and the other faculty at the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
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